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Month: July 2014

“Two everyday Japanese High School students end up having a chase of epic proportions through the streets of Atami.
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The events depicted in this movie were performed by professional stunt people and enhanced with special effects. Please don’t try this at home.”
Holy cow! Amazing…

“The Action starts when Ollie, a skateboard, takes his friend Didga, a CAT, for a ride around the beautiful beach town of Coolangatta, Australia. On the way Didga ‘shows off’ by jumping on, off, up and even over obstacles.”
Adorable.
Suggested by Laura R.

“Kimchi and Chips create phantoms of light in the air, crossing millions of calibrated beams with their work . The light installation creates floating graphic objects which animate through space as they do through time.”
Visit their site at website for a more indepth look at how they achieved this.
Haunting…

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“Bill’s fifty-two years old, has a mountain man beard, and delivers pizza on a fixie in Brooklyn. Over the course of several shifts, DELIVERY unveils an intriguing man rushing food to your door while it’s still hot and fresh.”
Stuff like this is a big reason I love Vimeo.

“Between 1928 and 1932, Western Union and AT&T Long Lines built two of the most advanced telecommunications buildings in the world, at 60 Hudson Street and 32 Avenue of the Americas in Lower Manhattan. Nearly a century later, they remain among the world’s finest Art Deco towers and cornerstones of global communication.”
A great little short documentary.

“For a movie about the fastest man alive, the obvious choice to direct would be the filmmaker behind such classics as THE SEVENTH SEAL, WILD STRAWBERRIES, and SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE.”
Funny / accurate (?)

“With an edge sander, half a millimeter is sanded off each work piece (wood, walnut, transformer, skull or analogue camera) and photographed. About 650 photos are made into a short film, which contrasts the inner structure of nature and technology.”
Some of this looks like an MRI scan, only in full-fidelity color. Amazing.

“Human helps people move almost twice as much in six weeks. Every day, people track millions of activities with our app. We visualized data in major cities all across the globe to get an insight into Human activity. Walking, running, cycling and motorized transportation data tell us different stories.”
Their website is also worth a look.

“Hyundai wanted to demonstrate its driver assist features like its Smart Cruise Control, Lane Keeping Assist and Auto Emergency Braking. So it put together a convoy of empty cars…”
After the announcement of Google’s 100% self-driving car tests by consumers a few weeks back, now Hyundai is getting in on the act.
This is such an interesting decade…